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Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung said Saturday that Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh’s statements on East Sea issues were well received by many nations at the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, held from July 29 to August 4in Thailand, who currently chairs ASEAN. The East Sea is internationally known as the South China Sea. Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Minh on Wednesday denounced China's activities in the East Sea at the ASEAN meeting, calling them "illegal" and "serious violations" of Vietnam's sovereignty and jurisdiction rights. At the 9th EAS Foreign Ministers' Meeting Friday, which is part of the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Minh said there have been unilateral activities that violated the sovereignty and legal interests of coastal states, and stressed that Vietnam has full historical and legal bases to assert its sovereignty over the Paracel (Hoang Sa) and Spraty (Truong Sa) Islands in the waterway." "The statements of … [Read more...] about Vietnam Deputy PM’s East Sea comments gather broad support

1. We, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met on 31 July 2019 at the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) in Bangkok. We underlined the need to further strengthen cooperation and advance our partnership to ensure sustainability in all dimensions for ASEAN amidst the rapid changes in Southeast Asia and beyond. ASEAN COMMUNITY-BUILDING 2. We reaffirmed our commitment to the full and effective implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the ASEAN Leaders’ Vision Statement on Partnership for Sustainability. We reaffirmed the importance of maintaining ASEAN centrality and unity in our community-building efforts, engagement with external partners and regional architecture. We commended the ongoing work of all ASEAN Sectoral Bodies and Organs for progress in the implementation of the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) … [Read more...] about Joint Communique of 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

Senators Bob Menendez, Ed Markey, Patrick Leahy and Brian Schatz have written to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking him to accord high priority to China’s maritime aggression in the South China Sea at the ASEAN Regional Forum to be held Friday in Bangkok, Thailand. Earlier this month, China sent out its oil survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 and escorts to Vietnamese waters near the Vanguard Bank in the south of the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea. China’s actions infringed on Vietnam’s EEZ and continental shelf, Vietnam’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said last Thursday, repeating demand that the Chinese ships leave Vietnamese waters. The U.S. senators urged Pompeo on Monday to "ensure that China’s aggressive and expansionist behavior in the South China Sea is a top priority" in discussions at the forum. China’s assertive behavior in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of other states, its use of reclaimed and … [Read more...] about ‘Hold China to account,’ US senators urge Secretary of State

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks at the 44th Singapore Lecture in Singapore, November 13, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha China’s Premier Li Keqiang said last month Beijing hoped consultations with Southeast Asian nations on a code of conduct (COC) for the South China Sea would be completed in three years, so that it will contribute to enduring peace and stability in the disputed waters. Li made his comments when in Singapore to attend annual meetings between ASEAN and its partner nations. China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed August on a working text to continue long drawn-out negotiations over the COC in the South China Sea. The waterway is known as the East Sea in Vietnam. Some ASEAN members and China have laid overlapping claims to islands in the sea, one of the world’s busiest waterways. In 2002, China and ASEAN signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), committing to … [Read more...] about What China’s conduct about the Code of Conduct reveals

Mai Linh launches cooperative to attract idle cars Mai Linh Group on November 15 will officially introduce and start the operation of Hoa Binh Xanh Taxi Cooperative in HCMC, which will call for the participation of owners of idle cars. According to the group’s press release, the cooperative is expected to offer more choices to the group’s customers. Early joiners of Hoa Binh Xanh Cooperative will be exempt from the management fee until December 31. They will also receive a uniform, free training courses and practicing certificates. After that, they will have to pay the management fee of only 13.9% of revenues for the duration of their contracts. Hoa Binh Xanh Cooperative will share Mai Linh’s taxi booking app and use call center 1055. The cooperative’s taxicabs will not be forced to have bright colors or be repainted in green, the traditional color of Mai Linh. However, they will have a lightbox highlighting the word “Taxi,” the Hoa Binh Xanh logo … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 15/11